August 31, 2015: Mi,mi,mi,mi….or is it ME, ME, ME, ME!

~by Susi Pittman

One of my most favorite trips each year is traveling from Florida to the North Georgia Mountains and then on to Asheville to celebrate the colorful falling leaves and the autumn harvest. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to make that trip for one reason or another over the past three years, so it was with high hopes that I made my early reservations this year. Wrong. One of those reasons happened again.

It was just not supposed to happen this year either. As the year moves along, it is almost a certainty that I will understand “why.” It has been so each of the past three years. So, you would think I wouldn’t break stride and just trust God, like I should.

I don’t know why I find it necessary to resist trusting God and dwelling in my limited “astuteness,” but, I do from time to time. I am so glad that God closes His eyes to my weakness!

The fact is, I am too human. As much as I want…no, yearn to rise into the bliss of leaving MY-self behind and resting in serving God, I fall into my worldly wants and find myself unhappy. That always seems to be the end result when I put myself first.

It is when I am open and willing, allowing God to be first that true joy follows. In the “joy” of heart is God served the best! It is in raising my voice, Lord, You are the Master and love eternal before All, that I once again find my center and the peace that fills all emptiness. It is when I rush back to God that I am revived and my courage is reinstalled.

If I had just one prayer for myself, it would be “to unite myself with my God constantly, intimately, so as to taste the fruit of His love and kindness constantly both here and hereafter.”

So, suffice it to say that I will once again leave the changing of the leaves upon the mountains for yet another year, as “true love” will fill my soul and make my autumn magnificent!